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For anyone else wanting Newsletter functionality, I realised that most of the mail scripts out there like Aweber or Mailchimp will support an RSS import so this could be a very easy way to generate a newsletter without needing to worry about building APIs / modules / scripts etc. Use the mailer to manage your lists and the RSS to auto create content.

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Yeah I have been working through that process. Been a long time since I played with PHP but there used to be a way of turning on a greater level of error checking with scripts. Your suggestion is close to delete all / start again unfortunately... not overly encouraging or reassuring for a new user ...

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Solved it. After completely wiping and restoring all files on my site and doing a fresh install, still had the same $^@*# problem. Logged into phpmysqladmin and could see that the posts were being added to the database BUT in a discarded state by default. Searched on here and found that if you go to Admin > Settings > Voting and change "Negative votes to remove submission" to anything other than 0 (I had mine at 5) it effectively discards all submissions!!!

This has been reported before on these forums. Why is the feature still broken or not come with big warning lights in 2.02 ? Or is it working as intended ? How do users now vote stories into a discarded state if they have no value ?

Again whole experience was frustrating and quite negative... Would have been better if it was something I had done wrong, but to find it was something like this .... :(

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Ive tried that. Have undone / overwritten everything I can think of except the database and the language file and the couple of template files. Have uninstalled all the modules and plugins... looks like it posts, but nothing... no errors, nadda... Im just frustrated that I spent hours learning Pligg, all seemed to be working, upgraded to 2.02 it broke, changed the files as per the github updates, seemed to work again and now it doesnt ... frustrating...